Kirsten Gram-Hanssen is a Professor at Aalborg University, specifically within the Department of Construction, Urban and Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Science. Her academic work is centered in the Section for City, Housing and Property, where she leads the Research Group for Sustainable Cities and Everyday Practice. She maintains an active research profile with numerous publications and projects focused on sustainable energy systems. Her educational background is not explicitly detailed in the provided text, but her PhD specialization in socio-technical analyses forms the foundation of her interdisciplinary approach connecting social sciences with engineering perspectives on sustainability. Gram-Hanssen's research interests focus on housing, everyday life, and consumption from a climate and energy perspective . She examines differences in household consumption practices through a practice-theoretical lens that emphasizes routines and technical infrastructures. Her work demonstrates that social organization of everyday life matters as much for home energy consumption as the technical efficiency of buildings and appliances. She also investigates how new technologies like private solar panels and smart home controls affect both energy consumption and daily life practices. Her research has significant implications for sustainable transitions and energy policy. Her recent publications show a clear trend toward addressing the energy crisis, sustainable consumption practices, and the intersection of technology with everyday life. The research spans domains including housing, food, and mobility, with a strong focus on practical solutions for energy transition and sustainability challenges. Her work increasingly addresses inequality, ethics, and policy implications of energy transitions. Active Principal Investigator on multiple major research projects including SGD: Shared Green Deal (2022-2027), FoMoHo: Food, Mobility and Housing in the Sustainable Transition of Everyday Life (2021-2025), and GECKO: Building greener societies (2021-2024) Frequent media commentator on energy and sustainability issues, with 197 media appearances documented Extensive research dataset creation including the eCAPE energy crisis interviews (2024) and smart home interviews (2022) Regular contributor to international conferences and workshops on sustainable consumption and energy practices Professor Gram-Hanssen has supervised numerous PhD students (9 documented) and actively participates in the academic community through peer review, conference organization, and editorial work. Her research group, the Research Group for Sustainable Cities and Everyday Practice, works at the intersection of social science and engineering to address sustainability challenges through understanding everyday practices and their relationship to energy systems.













